Science Fusion: Unit 2, Lesson 4 (Part A)

Before airplanes and other aircraft, observations of Earth were made from the...

• ground

• ocean surface

• valley

• window

Remote-sensing images of Earth are used to study things such as ...

• land features, weather and crop cover

• lava flow below the surface

• temperature throughout the day

• relations between resource usage and water consumption

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Remote-sensing images are made using data from ....

• sensors that detect visible light

• sensors that radiate visible light

• sensors that absorb visible light

• sensors that detect visible heat

Other kinds of EM radiation

• infrared and ultraviolet

• red and violet

• sensors and mirrors

• white and black

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Some types of EM radiation are invisible to the human eye

• True

• False

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To make EM radiation images we can see...

• computers are used to process the data collected by the sensor

• computers are used to halt the data collected by the sensor

• computers are used to process the data collected by the antenna

• computers are used to ignore the data collected by the sensor

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The first aerial photographs were taken ...

• from hot-air balloons in 1858

• from hot-air balloons in 1958

• from the top of high buildings in 1858

• from a go-pro in 1958

Today, aerial photographs are taken from ...

• aircraft such as airplanes and helicopters

• satellites

• tall buildings

• the ground

Aerial images are used for ...

• scientific investigations, land surveying, and many other purposes

• cooking instructions

• theoretical advice

• book summaries

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Satellites obit Earth ...

• 100s of kilometers above the planet

• only on weekdays

• only above the USA because other countries do not allow them

• for two years, and then they fail

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